Word: bravos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jury--Bravo, Paymore...
Israel Baline came to fame, however, by refusing a tip. He worked in the saloon of Nigger Mike, famed Bowery bravo of 20 years ago, was known as the Singing Waiter because he warbled as he doled out lager to the Nigger's clients. Prince Louis of Battenberg, on a slumming party, went to hear him. Warmed by the lager, or pleased with the song, the Teuton princeling profered ten cents. Baline, unaccustomed to the ways of royalty, staggered back. The riff-raff stared; up stepped a ruddy reporter, overawed both Prince and waiter with a cataclysm of questions. Next...
...Metropolitan after a long illness (TIME, Mar. 16) the musicians found a pause in the score, laid down their instruments, stood applauding with the audience. A brilliant singer whose voice is still exquisite, an accomplished actor, he is beloved by his fellow singers and worshiped by the bravo-yelling denizens of the Metropolitan's crow's nest...
...sang sweet in the cottonwood trees. The players could hear, in the evening, the strumming of banjo-strings, the warm, drowsy voices of the darkies singing Old Black Joe or perhaps Dem Golden Slippers in the hotel palm room. The jeers of the small boys changed to cries of "Bravo!" For now a different drama was daily to be seen on the dusky diamond...
...been selected by a strong-headed, rich-blooded French virgin (Annette) for the purpose of establishing, beyond all peradventure, certain emotional processes: how she came, after her wild but lovable father's death, to hate her vulgarian half-sister (Sylvie), then to love her passionately; to love an Italian bravo, forget him; then to love burly and brilliant Roger Brissot, then not to love him, then give herself to him, put him aside, become with child and at last find Love within herself. The work is delicate, painstaking; the repitition exhaustive. But the author of Jean Christophe craves?and deserves?...